Fashion And Beauty Festival
As civilizations developed, so styles of dress also evolved. In Egypt, Greece and Rome, clothes were draped, while the people of northern Europe and the East wore stitched, tubular garments. As people desired to change their silhouettes at regular intervals - a trend that coincided with a growing international textiles trade - so cutting and tailoring developed.
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Early fashion belonged to the elite, who tried to preserve their social superiority with 'sumptuary laws' forbidding tradesmen and yeomen from wearing expensive and lavishly embroidered fabrics. Elaborate wigs and powdered hair were abandoned, men's clothes were no longer embellished with embroidery and lace, and women adopted the simple Empire gown.
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In Britain affordable, mass-produced printed textiles and fashion accessories were made available by the Industrial Revolution. Fashion and femininity were inextricably entwined. In the late 1800s attempts began to make female dress more 'sensible'.
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